Horrifying Search Warrant Details Revealed In Case of Woman Kidnapped, Raped Over 5 Months

The woman, who said she was chained up, locked in boxes, and sexually assaulted, claims she was transported at one point from one RV to another inside of a trash can strapped to the bed of a truck.

A woman who vanished on January 8 while walking in Asheville, North Carolina, turned up five months later at a police station in Waynesville with a harrowing story of kidnapping and sexual abuse. Newly released details from search warrants for her case can only hint at what she allegedly endured.

According to those search warrants, the unidentified 29-year-old woman told police she accepted a ride from 26-year-old Winston Eccleston, after he pulled over in his pickup truck while she was walking and offered. That ride, she said, quickly turned into a kidnapping that would last for five months until she managed to escape.

She additionally told police that when her kidnapper got evicted from one RV campground where she was being held, per The Mountaineer, she was physically transported to a second location inside a trash can strapped to a truck bed. It was from this second RV that she was able to facilitate her escape just a few weeks later…

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